Plumb axe

[firebrick43]

Well I have all my firewood in for this year but need to start thinking about next years. I love hand tools for some odd reason and wish to use an axe and crosscut saw this year. I know quality comes with a price tag and I wish to buy an Gransfors DB axe but at 174 dollars with the 36 in handle it is to much at this time. Any way I finally got around to getting rid of a washing machine that the previous owner left in the shed and under it what do a find but an axe head. Cleaning it up revealed a plumb logo with a box around it and a large 3 with a small 5 next to it. I figgured that ment 3 and 1/2 pounds. The poll had been used to beat something with but it cleaned up with a mill file fairly quickly. One side wall of the eye is thicker than the other but it is the same thickness all the way through and the edge seams hard but not brittle. Would this be worth rehandling or should I save my time and money for the gransfors?

Jay Moyer

 

[Flop-shank]

I'd rehang it and try it out. If it sucks at least you got the chance to learn the art of rehanging (if you haven't already). Even if it sucks you'll have a good grubbing axe.

 

[Lukers]

Plumb are very fine tools! Especially the older ones. I'd say rehandle it and use it!

 

[Cliff Stamp]

...I wish to buy an Gransfors DB axe

That isn't a firewood pattern, more of a throwing axe.

-Cliff

 

[JW]

I have an older 3.5# Plumb rehandled with 28" hickory. this size makes a great "truck axe" in the toolbox.

 

[weldon]

That isn't a firewood pattern, more of a throwing axe.

-Cliff

I think gransfors makes 2 models of their double bit axe, one for felling and one for throwing... which doesn't make it a splitting axe. I learned how to split wood with the wood tipped on it's side and using kind of a golf swing. An axe works great that way, but I would use a cheap hardware store axe for that, a sharp gransfors would slice your leg off if you glanced a blow.